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...York Fashion Week felt like fashion déjà vu of a normal day at Harvard. As I was sitting (next to Fabio!) at the runway show of menswear designer John P. Bartlett ’85, each of the models might well have been the paradigm of a Harvard male, stepping out the door of his final club.“It’s very much about the Ivy League,” Bartlett said of his Fall 2007 collection. “It’s about classic East Coast heritage, the button down...
...Gold This is two minutes and twenty five seconds of pure, hard-core, home-cooked, old, weird Americana. An overweight Samuel L. Jackson, a severely beaten Christina Ricci, and a looooong iron chain. There is absolutely no precedent for this trailer. It doesn’t fit any trailer paradigm you’ve ever seen. It doesn’t show any of its cards, vis a vis who’s going to be the villain and who’s going to be the hero. All morality is up in the air, and really, would you expect...
Given the history of bureaucratic committees at Harvard, the EPC’s achievement is quite remarkable. Their efficient and effective work should serve as a paradigm for the implementation of the rest of the Curricular Review and other curricular improvements in the future...
...upcoming memoir (out officially Jan. 23) pimped Hillary and pounded a few more nails into the Kerry coffin. The installation of the Democrats as leaders of the House and Senate could mean that the G.O.P. will get a chance to run as outsiders again. Also, there's the paradigm-shifting announcement that Joe Biden is indeed running for President...
...efficient, soulless resort destination. Morris' latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav, helpfully reprints the entire 200-odd-page Last Letters from Hav before moving smoothly to its sequel, which describes the new Hav in all its globalized, deracinated glory. Hav's transformation is "a paradigm of our 21st century zeitgeist," Morris writes with the sadness of someone old enough to know how delightfully diverse the world used to be. - By Donald Morrison 2. Carmen Callil, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland...